Enigma
08-27-2002, 09:27 PM
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to read this message.
A friend of mine recently installed a new 40GB Western Digital HDD. The Western Digital Installation disk was used. He installed Windows 98 and had a problem with the Windows 98 opening screen locking up and it would not go to the desktop.
I took the computer home and found that Windows 98 was not completely installed. I got it to go to the desktop but I could not access the CD-ROM. On a black DOS looking screen before Windows would even start to boot up I would see a message that the Registry or System.ini could not find some device that was not present and finally something about vnetbios.vxd . I would hit enter and windows would do it's thing and boot to the desktop. I tried loading several CD-ROM drivers but the CD-ROM was still not detected. I wrote to the autoexec.bat and config.sys
The autoexec.bat was something like:
c:\windows\command\mscdex
The config.sys was something like:
Device=C:\Drivers\The driver name /v
The autoexec.bat and config.sys are just from memory at this time of writting.
The folder in C called "Drivers" contained the CD-ROM drivers.
The Windows\Command \mscdex "Command" was were the mscdex.exe file was located.
Could one of you pro's tell me what the heck I am doing wrong ?
I have spent hours trying to get the CD-ROM detected and I just can not do it :mad:
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Enigma
Thank you for taking the time to read this message.
A friend of mine recently installed a new 40GB Western Digital HDD. The Western Digital Installation disk was used. He installed Windows 98 and had a problem with the Windows 98 opening screen locking up and it would not go to the desktop.
I took the computer home and found that Windows 98 was not completely installed. I got it to go to the desktop but I could not access the CD-ROM. On a black DOS looking screen before Windows would even start to boot up I would see a message that the Registry or System.ini could not find some device that was not present and finally something about vnetbios.vxd . I would hit enter and windows would do it's thing and boot to the desktop. I tried loading several CD-ROM drivers but the CD-ROM was still not detected. I wrote to the autoexec.bat and config.sys
The autoexec.bat was something like:
c:\windows\command\mscdex
The config.sys was something like:
Device=C:\Drivers\The driver name /v
The autoexec.bat and config.sys are just from memory at this time of writting.
The folder in C called "Drivers" contained the CD-ROM drivers.
The Windows\Command \mscdex "Command" was were the mscdex.exe file was located.
Could one of you pro's tell me what the heck I am doing wrong ?
I have spent hours trying to get the CD-ROM detected and I just can not do it :mad:
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Enigma